Recently, the New York magazine Newsweek had 1,000 U.S. citizens take the official citizenship test, and 38 percent of them failed. The magazine said that 73 percent did not know why the USA fought the Cold War, 70 percent did not know that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and 65 percent could not figure out that the Constitution was written at the constitutional convention. Sixty-three percent got the number of Supreme Court judges wrong, and 59 percent had no idea that Susan B. Anthony fought for women's rights or that John Boehner is the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The magazine also reported that 40 percent did not know that the USA fought Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II, 29 percent could not name the Vice President, and 23 percent did not know that Martin Luther King fought for civil rights. Experts interviewed by the magazine blamed the country's ignorance partly on the large educational gap between the rich and the poor. "In contrast to Denmark or Finland, where citizens have a better grasp of how their country is run, we have a lot of very poor people without access to good education and a large immigrant population that does not speak English," said Dalton Coney, a sociologist at New York University. (ANI) Related thematic articles: puma outlet kirchheim YQI hsg CGN puma schuhe billig UEX tia QRV woolrich online shop MZG gvx JXF